The Highgate Pantry in Haringey

Great little place selling a wide array of food. Seating (limited) on ground floor and the basement.

£4.50 for a pretty awful sausage roll? That’s insane. Will never go back.

My card was accidentally charged almost £1000, when I realised the next day I rang up to speak to Joanne the manager. It’s a easy mistake, however I received ZERO apology & instead a lecture on how I “need to take some responsibility & be more cautious of what I’m authorising” Joanne’s attitude towards customer service is shocking. A simple apology & transfer would have been more than adequate!!!!!

Perfect Victoria sponge, with the best cream to jam ratio. Even pushed the boat out and took some sausage rolls to go. A hidden gem of Highgate! Cheers

A lovely cafe — and the only independent coffee shop in Highgate! Their homemade lasagnes and quiches are great, plus delicious sandwiches and cakes.

They charged my Mum the Earth for 2 scones that were dry, stale and rock hard. Absolutely awful - they should be ashamed! Very disappointed.

Amazing selection of cakes really friendly staff. Great place to nip into with a friend we loved it.

Lovely for a quick meal stop. Window food display are always attractive. Had a quick lunch today, the quiche was delish!

Siempre pido los pasteles de cumpleaños para mis hijos aquí - hecho en casa y súper delicioso! ¡El terciopelo es la opción preferida! ¡Pide uno más hoy!

La comida no parecía fresca, el piso estaba sucio a las 10 am al igual que el inodoro. Parecía que no había habido limpieza desde la noche anterior.

They charge extortionate prices for basic things. I got a slice of red velvet cake (which they got from Costco) and charged £4.50. I decided to have it in store and the owner of the store told me to leave the store soon as it costs money for electricity. How rude of her to say that to a paying customer.

£32.05 for two pieces of quiche with some salad- an absolute ripoff. No prices on display. The food was adequate but not great. Please check cost before buying anything- or avoid and go to Gail’s opposite.

I got a chocolate eclair but the bottom was very wet. It was so bad I couldn’t finish it.

Good selection of cakes and food and everything tasted nice but nothing special. Unfortunately nothing is labelled for price or description so you’re left having to ask the staff what everything is or just guess. Prices seemed quite steep although it is Highgate so maybe theirs is same as others 🤷‍♂️. Staff ok but not overly friendly or welcoming.

Very poor service!!! They didn’t want to give me a tea spoon to stair up my coffee!!! Then they blamed us for using the auger from the table!!! Toilet isn’t clean at all especially for a place where food is the main thing!!! This business will go down if they don’t learn how to win every single customer!!! Especially in this area the rich people aren’t stupid!!! If you’re not excellent in what you’re doing you’ll fell behind as this business already has its competitors which are well established!!!

This place looks so lovely from outside we had been aiming to go in for a while. Its very crowded inside. My friend had to move everytime someone wanted to go to the fridge. We realised that many of the cakes are actually idential in look and taste to a huge range sold at Costco! A coincidence???? The small slice of quiche (albeit home made) with a small side salad was £12 and a cup of tea was something like £4.50 so the bill for four of us took our breath away. The other thing to mention is how actually dirty the place is. Its fine if you keep your eyes at eye level but if you look down the actual dust around the skirting boards is so dense its forming black fluff! Not sure environmental health would give it a great rating. Wont be going back

£5.90 for two dry scones that broke to pieces

Came here before visiting Highgate Cemetery, nice lunch , coffee and cakes.

The reason I come here is to support independent proprietors. Pros : gorgeous array of cakes and pastries. Nice selection of cooked savouries. Friendly staff. Reasonable prices. Cons: Where they can improve is the savoury food is quite bland. For example the couscous can be vastly improved if they cooked that in chicken stock and added some herbs. The lasagne and quiche were quite bland also and the type of veges they are using in the lasagne are just basic frozen vege mix. They could add some more interesting veg like eggplant and zucchini for example. The staff are consistently very friendly and polite, so any other comments,on here saying to the contrary are just making that up or trying to sabotage, in my opinion

Shocked to have been charged £17 for 2 cream éclairs and 2 cream horns! And, they weren't even good! Better quality in supermarkets! And the lady serving me didn't even bother to mention the price, just took my card for payment! Think they are over trading on the area's popularity.

Disappointed in chocolate cake. Too dry and too expensive.

The Highgate Pantry does not display prices or menus on tables they do display drink cost I was shocked at the price of the food should ask for the prices up front and not asked to sit down and pay when finished still cannot work out the cost of the Quiche or the sausage roll for it to cost well over £20

I have been to the Pantry 3 times. We had a soup for lunch which was quite bland. I bought some sweets/cakes that were really nice. And a coffee that was practically undrinkable. As much as I would want to support an indie business - Gails opposite is just better. The only reason I would visit pantry is if the queue at Gails is too long. If they want to compete they need to at least improve the coffee because the standard everywhere is so much higher. Lovely service though and very nice baked goods.

Very Disappointing to their bakeries, both jam doughnut and mille feuille. The pastries are too below average, probably the worst Mille-feuille, tho looks nice from the window. Don’t recommend at all. p.s. the service is very average also, I don’t feel they’re friendly to customers.

Unconvinced by anyone putting anything more than 3 stars for this place. Not unless things change considerably day to day, which is possible. Think the worst part really is the deceptiveness of the lack of pricing, and how that equates to the experience and food quality. The drinks were OK, as was the pecan pie we had, but the cottage pie was just so bland it didn't justify the seeming expense when it came to the bill; nearly £28 for drinks, a main and a sweet. The staff were pleasant but by no means personable. The atmosphere inside is just so different and lackluster from what you expect looking at the front. If you just want a pastry/sweet and coffee, yeah it's OK but anything beyond that, could not recommend.

They quite clearly just buy cakes from the supermarket and unpack them, and then serve them for too long

Local (not chain) business - the main reason to visit. The coffe is okey, the cakes too. Unfortunately, everything is just average. A huge downside is that cakes and pastries are not labeled, there are no lists of ingredients and no price list. The staff are polite but uninterested. Non-dairy milk options available. Savory meals also sold. The saucer of my coffe cup was a bit dirty - that was very unpleasant.

Food was pretty good but we were charged £21.99 for a small slice of quiche, chocolate eclair and sausage roll. Quite crazy

Huge disappointment and regret about money wasted. It looks nice from outside but once inside... First of all, there was no price list for pantry stuff (only for drinks). There were no item labels either, so we had to ask about each and every one what that thing was and what's inside. After all, we ordered 2 cups of coffee and 3 pantry items. Scone was awful: dry, not fresh at all, it tasted old actually. They didn't warm it up either, so it was - besides dry - also cold and hard. Instead of clotted cream there was butter I believe, very soft, almost melted, actually it tasted pure fat. Dry, cold, old scone with a layer of fat on it.... I felt nauseous 20 min later... Place to sit downstairs was stinky and uncomfortable, definitely far from cozy. It is actually a kind of small hall in front of toilet. At the end we were shocked by the bill: 20 pounds.

amazing fresh cakes and pastries

Very overpriced and very mediocre food , no prices displayed and feels dated , pity as it has the ability to be something special - bill was shocking

Lovely atmosphere. Friendly service and homemade food. I had the chicken and ham pie which was beautiful. And a great coffee. Highly recommend this as a stop off for a great lunch on the way to a tour of Highgate Cemetery.

Stopped for coffee and cake at this delightful little cafe in Highgate. I had cappuccino, friend had a pot of good strong tea (just a she loves it). We both had chocolate fudge cake which was just so very yummy. The two girls were lovely, smiling and helpful. Apparently, the cafe sells freshly squeezed orange juice too. I plan to try one of their homemade quiches next visit.

Great little place to stop off for a treat, lovely coffee and the strawberry tart was delicious. Also had some quiche to take away and was also lovely.

Lovely place discovered casually

This charming cafe and cake shop was exactly what we needed for a late morning tea. There is a vast range of sweet and savoury snacks and it has a clean, modern feel. Definitely recommended.

We really wanted to support a small business rather go to Gails across the road. But we were very disappointed. No pricing of the food anywhere and unfortunately when the bill came we were shocked at the cost! The food was ok nothing special. 😕

Food is very average. Prices would be fine but are ridiculous for what you get.

Look simple from the outside(except pink color), but ordinary inside. I was surprised when paid £ 30 for 2 coffees plus 1 muffin, 1 panini, and a slice of quiche tart(served with salad). I find that quite expensive for that kind of coffee shop. By the way, I saw prices only for coffee on the wall, food and cakes not priced. The food was ok, but on display looked dried, so that why I go for sw. The staff are helpful and looks friendly. The muffin was fresh and tasty.

Very disappointed. Sandwich with barely any filling and poor quality bread. Terrible value for money. Unfriendly staff. Do not recommend

Overpriced and downstairs area smells unpleasant.

Came in for a treat after a visit to the area and before going to Highgate Cemetery. Let's just say I did not feel welcome in here and it was a little pricey too. I ordered coffee and cake but not likely to come back. I do prefer little independent shops but expect a little nicer atmosphere.

We stopped for a cup of tea and a cake each recently. The price gave us quite a shock. The drinks menu is on the wall behind the counter but we could not see any prices for the cakes so be careful before you order.

Don’t go to this bakery! This was the worst coffee cake I ever had. It looks very nice and appealing but in reality it was dry and definitely not fresh. You better go to Gail’s which is on the opposite side of the street.

We just came back very disappointing from this little cafe. We ordered 2 cappuccinos and one cheese panini. The coffee were so bitter and strong that we could not drink them. The panini had cheddar cheese only, although on the display they had different cheese with ham and tomato and basil. I was not offered the veg at all, but ended up paying £6.95 for the most average panini that you can get in some places for couple of quid. When I said that they told me that the price is £4.50 for a sandwich with everything in it, they said that the panini is more expensive. They did not apologies or seemed troubled to serve a cheep panini bread with cheap cheddar without offering tomato etc that was actually included in the price. Miserable place, skip it.

The place looks pretty, the service is friendly but painstakingly slow. I had a well overpriced strawberry tart that was soggy and definitely not fresh. Shame, they could do much better being across from Gail's.

What a wonderful place to chill out and unwind 🥐☕ Quick service and friendly staff 😊

Greate service, fresh good higly reccomend

Όμορφο μέρος, πολύ ποικιλία γλυκά και διάφορα φαγητά. Έχει επιλογή και κάτω να καθίσεις για τραπεζάκι,όμως δεν είναι αυλή, όπως είχα φανταστεί. Ο χώρος είναι μικρός,αλλά βολεύεσαι. Εμένα προσωπικά αυτό δεν χαλάει. Σε κεντρικό σημείο κοντά σε στάση λεωφορείων, και απέναντι δεξιά κάτω είναι η στάση С South Grove 143 και 210 δρομολόγια για να πας στη πόλη Με βόλεψε πολύ. Είχα σταματήσει για καφέ και πήρα 2 τάρτες. Raspberry and cherry. Και τα 2 ηταν ήταν νόστιμα. Οι τιμές κανονικές για την περιοχή. Δεν τα βρήκα πανάκριβα. Το προσωπικό φιλικό.

Stopped off here whilst visiting Highgate for the day. Had a coffee in the morning. Everywhere clean and tidy, amazing selection of cakes and food, nicely presented. Service was friendly. Liked it so much that returned at the end of the day for another coffee and snack. Reasonable prices and would certainly use again if in the area.

Lovely place! Glad I didn’t look at the reviews beforehand or I would have missed out on the most charming lunch place in Highgate. We wandered around looking for a place to eat and this was by far the busiest and most convivial. We had lasagna and pie and finished with a cupcake. Everything tasted fresh and homemade. The cafe was cozy and clean, and the service was friendly — the family that run the place are wonderful. Gail’s are everywhere but this is one of a kind. We’ll be back.

Overpriced, doesn’t even taste nice and also I had bought a few different stuff from there, for me to come home and then find one of the pastries that I got had mould on it!!! How can you be selling items with mould on it, clearly shows this place does not care about hygiene and their stuff is not fresh! Would not recommend at all!

Shame. Looks ok and imagine they get a lot of passing trade. But the cakes are very amateurish and waaaay over priced. Raspberry tart was very soggy. Doughnuts big but fairly standard. As others have stated silly expensive, you can charge that on Highgate, but you need to deliver.

I bought a chocolate cake for my sister's birthday without tasting it. Unfortunately, it was super sweet and tasted like lots of sugar. I couldn't even taste the chocolate

Very over-priced for very mediocre cakes. Same prices as Gail's without the quality. The cakes and pastries are fine but not for like £4 a piece. Either go with lower prices or get much better quality baked goods. Shame as this could be a great local bakery, which i'd much rather support than a chain like Gail's.

This is a lovely local cafe with friendly staff and a gorgeous selection of savoury and sweet items.

Pot of tea, polite staff, clean and airy

Way too pricey, not even good quality food.

Really overpriced and poor quality. Food was tasteless.

Great little place. Lots of nice cakes on offer and cute little downstairs area out of cold.

I live nearby and stop in often. Delicious home cooked food and baked goods on offer.great place to stop in after a long walk on Hampstead Heath.

A slice of quiche with a salad (a few limp lettuce leaves) was £9.95! Completely overpriced for what it was. If there had been a menu/written prices I definitely would've gone elsewhere.

Ordered a roll and a sandwich plus a donut for my daughter and I. I said to the staff that I'd like to sit down but was told abruptly that they would be shut in 30 minutes. I said we won't take 30mins but it was clear from the look of the assistant's face that we were not welcome. The price came to £10.98 but I only had a £20 note, no change. The assistant was really unhappy about this even though I offered to pay by card! The food was very average, not much flavour, donut stale. We should have gone to Costa over the road. I won't be returning... Don't be fooled by the pretty shop window.

The only place in Highgate you can get Pastel de Nata and a nice cup of coffee and fresh squeezed orange juice that 😋 is freshly squeezed.

Friendly stuff but strawberry tart was off, pastry soggy and fruit beginning to rot under glaze. Not good enough, sorry.

It all looks beautiful, however the red velvet cake I had was really tasteless, I'm afraid. It tastes like sugar. Even Whittington's cafeteria offers red velvet that is so much better. This one is supermarket level or worse. Couldn't even finish it, and I am anything but fussy. Very disappointed.

This was good to visit once; I now live in Dorset, but feel my friends and I could not eat much there that was healthy and sustainable, really. The Greek Salad had no olives, no herbs and was littered with lettuce and a tiny touch of Feta, so not Greek! The tomatoes were tasteless and, only the cucumber was edible. The cream tea was disappointing with hard, bland scones and off - flavour, cream? The tea was so bad I could not finish drinking it. One friend ate the lasagne and came home with a stomach ache! So sad, and depressing to see. The staff speak Polish all the Time and, leave customers without conversation! The radio is on quite loud, too. When an elderly man and younger carer came in as regulars, the female manager expressed some offensive political views and criticised the U.K. - so, why is she even here? Just yo earn a living? Go away! I won’t be back!

We walked 30 minutes to the pantry relying on the opening hours reported on Google and found it closed today at 17:30. Nothing affixed on the door no way we could know it was closed...and it's not the first time, is always a bit of a bet with this place. So annoying. If your normal hours differ from what's written on Google, take at least the bother to update your website/Google page please.

Very pleasant staff and ambiance. Coffee really hot and nice too.

Had a ham and cheese croissant. They have a lot of different savoury and sweet snacks in this cute little place!

Chose this bakery as we like to support small businesses. Sadly we felt we were exploited even given the prices in the area. £7 for a shortcake Viennese eclair & a coffee slice not even fresh cream is high. There is another shop Limone Fine Foods further down towards Waterlow Park which had lovely coffee & cakes. Which was less expensive & very good.

Great, home-made style cakes. I prefer it to chain bakeries.

We had a sausage roll and a Cornish pasty. They were both warmed in the microwave which made the pastry soggy but it didn't look particularly crisp or flaky to begin with. The Cornish pasty pastry was limp and the filling was bland. The sausage roll filling was similarly pale and flavourless. Both tasted like cheap supermarket pastries but it wasn't even cheap.

Really incredible range of delicious sweet and savoury food. Brilliant and friendly service

I bought 2 cakes and they were quite mediocre for such a price. Red velvet cake was over sweetened, it was hard to eat.

Always pop in to get a deliciously cheeky jam doughnut. Excellent, friendly service and great snacks.

They have a really good selection of desserts and pastries and a very nice display of them on the window which looks very appealing. Sadly the taste doesn’t match the looks. We bought 2 really good looking desserts for circa £7.5 pounds (bit pricey) but we were very disappointed with the flavours and textures. 😕😕

Lovely selection of cakes. They also offer a range of light lunch meals. Friendly staff

Thank you for allowing me to use the lavatory for my little girl who needed to ease herself. Thank you girls! You have won yourself a new customer given your kind attitude

A great variety of cakes, doughnuts, cupcakes, coffee and more, including savoury dishes. Delicious flavours and lovely staff.

Super little cosy cafe with tasty cakes and pies. Bonus in that we were allowed to take our dog in who sat under the table!

Wonderfully friendly little village bakery with a small collection of tables. Lovely attentive staff and a ridiculous variety of cakes, tarts and savoury dishes. Good coffee as well.

Martina was super polite, helpful and professional. Her service created a pleasant atmosphere and even resulted in me buying more!

Nice little cosy cafe with a wide range of cakes and pastries to choose from.

Excellent choice and friendly atmosphere.

Ich habe hier gefrühstückt. Es hat geschmeckt, nette Bedienung. Es gibt Luft nach oben. Speisen konnten wertiger sein. Auswahl ist ausreichend.

Visitors to the area we were drawn to here as it wasn’t a chain, nor did it look chi chi. It looked homely and inviting others an enticing display of cakes in the window. The sweet mince pie and the rocky road both hit the spot and the cuppa was nice too. What really stood out though was how helpful courteous and friendly the staff were. It made our time there a pleasure and if ever in Highgate again, I’m sure we’d call in!

For Highgate it's reasonable I think! Lovely freshly made sandwiches and a great selection of cakes. I enjoyed my lunch here.

A lovely local delight thoroughly recommend Iwhem visiting Highgate village. A large selection of cakes & quiches.

You know the donuts in the Simpsons? The ones with lots of icing snd sprinkles? I think this is where Homer gets them from... they are huge! Good selection of savory stuff & great coffee too

Service is always friendly and there's a large cake selection on offer but they all do have a 'school cake sale' look and taste about them and are very expensive for what they are. A few tables inside. My son loves the giant donuts so we always stop in when we're passing. Nothing you couldn't get cheaper in a local Greggs.

We just bought two doughnuts here for over £3 and they were very stale with too much sugary icing. Wondered if we had bought the display models by mistake.

Cute little place with delicious pastries!!!

Yesterday after a visit of Highgate cemetery that left us starving, my elderly parents and I turned up for a piece of cake and tea at 3.30. We had seen the cakes displayed in the window on our way to the cemetery and were greatly...

When we got to Highgate Pantry, we had already eaten a large meal and were quite full so we purchased a small cupcake each. Unfortunately, over half of these cupcakes were pure buttercream and we eventually threw them away! I know not to buy the...

Food is canteen quality, and owner is rude. No greetings or thanks. The whole shop could benefit from some update.

Expensive place , but suppose they can charge the prices just because its highgate. The food was ok just like any other deli.

Ridiculously overpriced - even for highgate.

Reasonable priced & pleasant experience

Lovely pantry, my daughters love the donuts. Really nice staff.